kiolSep 24, 2025

Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?

https://lemmy.world/post/36414259

Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? - Lemmy.World

Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

Show threadbizarrolandSep 24, 2025
I’m running a TrueNAS server on bare metal with a handful of hard drives. I have virtualized it in the past, but meh, I’m also using TrueNAS’s internal features to host a jellyfin server and a couple of other easy to deploy containers.
Show threadkiolSep 24, 2025
So Truenas itself is running your containers?
Show threadbizarroland

Yeah, the more recent versions basically have a form of Docker as part of its setup.

I believe it’s now running on Debian instead of free BSD, which probably simplified the containers set up.

Sep 24, 2025 at 11:07pmWeb